Could NYC have found a more thoughtful approach in dealing with one repeat street food vendor, Mohammad Ullah? Screen shot.

Social media users have expressedbewilderment after a video made the rounds Friday showing the moment NYC Sanitation workers dumped a Chinatown shopkeeper’s wares after repeatedly blocking the sidewalk.

The incident told repeat offender, Mohammad Ullah involved the NYPD being called in to remove the East Broadway based shopkeeper’s wares after complaints that his fruit and vegetable stands were blocking the sidewalk.

Unlicensed and up to his eyeballs in $60K in unpaid city fines a report via the nyposttells how the city sent in cops on February to take down the illicit shopkeeper’s wares.

Wearily complying, Mohammad Ullah told how he began moving his wares only to shortly discover to his horror that cops had instead called sanitation because the man wasn’t going fast enough.

Told the repeat shop offender: ‘The cop came and told me to move, so I started moving the boxes,’

‘Son of a bitch sits in his car and calls sanitation, then they come and take everything. He was watching me move the boxes and he still called men to take it away. It was like a robbery. I lost $8,300 of merchandise in one day.’

Ironically Ullah had only just bought the fruit the day before.

Reiterated the hustling shopkeeper, ‘It was all fresh,’

‘They threw out 52 boxes of fresh cherries — those were $3 a pound! There was lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, grapefruit, Chinese pears. But the worst was the oranges. Everyone here wants the Mandarin oranges, and they’re all gone.’

NYC cracking down on fruit stores that put out merchandise more then 4 feet from store.

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JEng

They should praise DOS for not embezzling the food and just chucking it because they cannot donate it and take responsibility for the quality of the food – if the recipients were to take ill because of the discarded food, who gets into trouble? DOS or NYPD for vouching for the food safety?

Also, NYPD was owed 60k in fines so NYPD is going to have to correct him – if the press keeps nagging NYPD when they didn’t write the law or make the rules, isn’t that taking advantage of NYPD in a situation that they can’t change?

Or is this to support Don Lee’s campaign and win favor with the vendors? Cuz that’s who you want to see rule over the Chinese like my family, right?

As soon as it is illegal, ruthlessness is part of NYPD’s arsenal to discourage ongoing misconduct. It’s definitely on purpose and it works just like pulling in people on Fridays for bologna sandwiches all weekend until the court date – it’s their way of deterring to keep these types of minor misdeeds at a minimum. It’s that You’ll Never Do That Again tactic.

I think the press knows that so why would they come out so openly on one side of the issue?

JEng

They should praise DOS for not embezzling the food and just chucking it because they cannot donate it and take responsibility for the quality of the food – if the recipients were to take ill because of the discarded food, who gets into trouble? DOS or NYPD for vouching for the food safety?

Also, NYPD was owed 60k in fines so NYPD is going to have to correct him – if the press keeps nagging NYPD when they didn’t write the law or make the rules, isn’t that taking advantage of NYPD in a situation that they can’t change?

Or is this to support Don Lee’s campaign and win favor with the vendors? Cuz that’s who you want to see rule over the Chinese like my family, right?

As soon as it is illegal, ruthlessness is part of NYPD’s arsenal to discourage ongoing misconduct. It’s definitely on purpose and it works just like pulling in people on Fridays for bologna sandwiches all weekend until the court date – it’s their way of deterring to keep these types of minor misdeeds at a minimum. It’s that You’ll Never Do That Again tactic.

I think the press knows that so why would they come out so openly on one side of the issue?

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I think the idea to start “Scallywag and Vagabond.” (SCV) originates from my myriad background and the many years I have spent in preferred cafes and brasseries extolling the virtues and subtle intricacies of ‘being’ as the Beaujolais ran, the cigarette wafted and the gentleman to my side pontificated while spraying himself with a deftly tied cravat and sun crested idolatry.’

I grew up in Australia where as a young man one was obliged to become a hero of sorts. A master swimmer, fighter of causes, ideals and disheveled denizen of aesthetics, and more often a carefree ‘larrikin’ who would occasionally poke his sun bronzed nose at authority and convention Read More